Post by Daniel on Apr 20, 2017 7:12:38 GMT -5
The Hard Truth About Putin’s Russia
By Wesley Smith
The press conference yesterday with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was illustrative of the real relationship between the United States and Russia. Tillerson’s sober countenance and markedly brief opening statement was reminiscent of the meeting years ago between President Reagan and then-Soviet Premier Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland: Tillerson facial expressions said it all. He refused to put a positive spin on an unproductive meeting with a recalcitrant and uncooperative Russian leader, Vladimir Putin. Unable to reason with an unreasonable Russian President and Foreign Minister, he stated the obvious, answered the media’s questions candidly, and boarded his airplane for the flight back to the U.S.A.
As this was transpiring, Russia for the eighth time vetoed a resolution at the United Nations Security Council that would have condemned Assad’s use of chemical weapons and called for an independent investigation of the Syrian airbase from which the chemical attack was launched and events leading up to the horrific attack on innocent Syrian civilians.
Ironically, at the joint Tillerson/Lavrov news conference, the Russian Foreign Minister objected to the United States’ opposition to Syria’s Assad by proclaiming the innocence of Assad – with the lack of United Nations sanctions as proof of the dictator’s legitimacy. There are no U.N. sanctions because Russia will not allow it. It is not indicative of a lack of culpability of Assad, but rather the intransigence of Russia.
Here are some facts about Russia that Putin and the Russians would just as soon not discuss...
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aclj.org/national-security/the-hard-truth-about-putins-russia
By Wesley Smith
The press conference yesterday with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was illustrative of the real relationship between the United States and Russia. Tillerson’s sober countenance and markedly brief opening statement was reminiscent of the meeting years ago between President Reagan and then-Soviet Premier Gorbachev in Reykjavik, Iceland: Tillerson facial expressions said it all. He refused to put a positive spin on an unproductive meeting with a recalcitrant and uncooperative Russian leader, Vladimir Putin. Unable to reason with an unreasonable Russian President and Foreign Minister, he stated the obvious, answered the media’s questions candidly, and boarded his airplane for the flight back to the U.S.A.
As this was transpiring, Russia for the eighth time vetoed a resolution at the United Nations Security Council that would have condemned Assad’s use of chemical weapons and called for an independent investigation of the Syrian airbase from which the chemical attack was launched and events leading up to the horrific attack on innocent Syrian civilians.
Ironically, at the joint Tillerson/Lavrov news conference, the Russian Foreign Minister objected to the United States’ opposition to Syria’s Assad by proclaiming the innocence of Assad – with the lack of United Nations sanctions as proof of the dictator’s legitimacy. There are no U.N. sanctions because Russia will not allow it. It is not indicative of a lack of culpability of Assad, but rather the intransigence of Russia.
Here are some facts about Russia that Putin and the Russians would just as soon not discuss...
more
aclj.org/national-security/the-hard-truth-about-putins-russia
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